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Cert. & Teacher Training

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Character & Self Esteem

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Charter Schools

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Discipline & Behavior

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Repeating Instructions Yet Again-January 07, 2006 … The Roles of Punishment: More than the Offender-January 05, 2006 … Fines Doubled in Work Areas: A Policy Idea for Substitutes?-December 14, 2005 … Meaning what we Say-July 12, 2004 … The role of Expulsion-June 14, 2004 … Thoughts on parenting, lessons for schooling-May 12, 2004 … The Ladder: One idea for serious school discipline problems-April 17, 2004 … The Solution to Discipline Problems: Empowered Administrators and Teachers-March 28, 2004 … Teachers and Principal "On Strike" for more respect from kids? Pathetic!-March 02, 2004 … School as Prison, and other useless ways to improve safety-March 01, 2004 … School Dictatorships and Setting Limits-February 15, 2004 … Resentful Rubber Room Resident Remains-February 05, 2004 … Spare the rod, spare the child-February 03, 2004 … Cheating Pep Rally in Phoenix-January 27, 2004 … "And then he goes back to class" (A bully's tale)-January 23, 2004 … Zero Tolerance explained-January 09, 2004 … Zero Tolerance: Death of Due Process-January 05, 2004 …


Education Reform

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Carnival of Education Week 50-January 18, 2006 … A few words on accountability.-January 14, 2006 … Part II: Are public schools unfairly under attack?-January 04, 2006 … Part I: Anecdotal Evidence Piles Up, but Sunlight Disinfects!-January 03, 2006 … Myth: There's a War against Public Education-December 28, 2005 … Yes, Dedicated Teachers Fail Kids-December 15, 2005 … Declaration of Beliefs and Visions in Philadelphia-July 25, 2004 … NAACP: "Keep your children in failing schools"-June 29, 2004 … The British standard in Ethiopia-June 08, 2004 … Reflections on Brown: Black school, White school-May 20, 2004 … Reflections on Brown: More segregation today?-May 18, 2004 … Reflections on Brown: A racial problem?-May 17, 2004 … Free Market Triptych (part two): Freedom to Teach-May 15, 2004 … Placing the blame for school failure-April 15, 2004 … Overseas outsourcing: Blame society and standardized tests?-March 25, 2004 … News Flash: Same-age children aren't all the same!-March 18, 2004 … Consequence of Child-Centered approach: Difference of Opinion-March 13, 2004 … Is Progressive Education coming to Iraq?-March 13, 2004 … Fred on Schools: Guaranteed Reprehensible.-March 09, 2004 … Expectations, Achievement, and the "Toughest grader in the state"-March 06, 2004 … Middle Schools Begone?-March 04, 2004 … Taking Criticism . . . and improving the profession.-February 10, 2004 … Who's visiting ReformK12 in the world?-February 01, 2004 … New French Education Reform Blog!-January 31, 2004 … 18 Students Ace Math SAT in one school-January 29, 2004 … Deconstructing "I Am Your Public School"-January 26, 2004 … The Battle for History Standards in Minnesota-January 26, 2004 … The Death of Excellence-January 25, 2004 … Unilateral Disarmament of Educational Standards-January 14, 2004 … Slaying Dragons--For the Children!-January 11, 2004 … Aligning to Lousy Standards-January 04, 2004 … Straight Talk from Philly's Vallas-January 03, 2004 … What's wrong with "wonderful"-December 28, 2003 … Education Reform Sampler-December 23, 2003 … Major Themes in Education Reform-December 21, 2003 … Education Reform and Rocket Science-December 20, 2003 … Changing what we can change-December 18, 2003 … A tale of two extremes-December 17, 2003 … Comparison of Traditional and Progressive approaches-December 16, 2003 … Opening Doors (or, "Why We Teach")-December 15, 2003 … Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools-December 14, 2003 … Origins-December 11, 2003 … Our Mission-December 10, 2003 …


Education Research

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Higher Education

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Homeschooling

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Humor

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Hip-hop Pythagoras: Kills grammar dead-June 27, 2004 … Not In My Back Yard!-April 15, 2004 … Ode to plugging a Public School budget deficit-February 13, 2004 … Fisking Mitch Coleman-February 11, 2004 … Blowing the lid off Homeschooling-January 28, 2004 … Humor: Responsibilities of Teachers-December 28, 2003 … Humor: Responsibilities of Teachers-December 28, 2003 …


Library

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Books you need to read-December 13, 2003 …


Math Education

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Desperately Seeking Numeracy in Fayette County-December 13, 2005 … "Girl, 18, More Math-Ignorant than Governor"-July 08, 2004 … More on Connected Mathematics and Research-June 22, 2004 … Connected Mathematics Program: A Critique-June 22, 2004 … Connected Mathematics Program: What 3 'supportive' studies say-June 19, 2004 … Predictable Results from a New New Math Program-June 17, 2004 … Arithmetic versus Problem Solving-June 12, 2004 … False Dichotomies of Education Reform: Reading and Math-June 10, 2004 … Calculators are like Bicycles-April 21, 2004 … 18 Students Ace Math SAT in one school-January 29, 2004 … Former student of Jaime Escalante turns out okay-January 21, 2004 … NCTM and "Problem Solving"-December 30, 2003 … Redefining the word "effective"-December 27, 2003 … Dueling Brochures: Everyday Math vs. Saxon Math-December 24, 2003 …


Misconceptions

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Do Vouchers Take Money Away From Public Schools?-January 10, 2006 … Myth: There's a War against Public Education-December 28, 2005 … Reflections on Brown: Black school, White school-May 20, 2004 … Reflections on Brown: More segregation today?-May 18, 2004 … Reflections on Brown: A racial problem?-May 17, 2004 … Embracing creativity the wrong way-May 03, 2004 … Myth of "creaming" and school choice-March 16, 2004 … Sampling, and the point of standardized tests-March 08, 2004 … Middle Schools Begone?-March 04, 2004 … Myth: Transient students bring down test scores-February 24, 2004 … Special-Ed Vouchers?-February 22, 2004 … Voucher School Gone Bad: An edu-Enron?-February 21, 2004 … Myth: We need smaller class sizes-February 09, 2004 … "Discovery Learning" is wonderful-February 03, 2004 … Myth: "We need more parental involvement!"-February 01, 2004 … New Route Needed for Certification-January 29, 2004 … Myth of Drill and Kill-January 28, 2004 … Deconstructing "I Am Your Public School"-January 26, 2004 … Doing the Math with Public School budgets-January 25, 2004 … What's wrong with Constructivism?-January 24, 2004 … "The Bottom Line" in public and private schools-January 18, 2004 … Aren't Classroom VCRs wonderful?-January 01, 2004 … Myth: We need Innovation for schools to improve-December 31, 2003 … Isn't "Constructivism" wonderful?-December 29, 2003 …


Off topic

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Subscribe to News Feed or Daily Email-January 08, 2006 … Server Problems! Please be patient.-December 19, 2005 … On Vacation until July 25-July 13, 2004 … Happy Birthday, America-July 04, 2004 … 10k Blogiversary: Thank You!-March 24, 2004 … Iraqi Schools and the U.S. Military-February 16, 2004 … Who's visiting ReformK12 in the world?-February 01, 2004 … No Soda for Philly Schoolkids-January 17, 2004 … Ten Great Things About America-December 12, 2003 …


Parents & Community

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Politics

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Connecticut Charter Schools Not Supported by Governor-January 05, 2006 … Teacher Unions, Teacher Activism: Is anyone actually teaching?-December 29, 2005 … No Child Left Behind and Growth Models-December 11, 2005 … Universal Preschool in California? Unintended consequences lie ahead.-December 10, 2005 … $10,000 per student in taxpayer dollars? Ouch.-July 09, 2004 … NEA: "Defeat Bush! (oh, and vote for Kerry)"-July 07, 2004 … NAACP: "Keep your children in failing schools"-June 29, 2004 … Reflections on Brown: More segregation today?-May 18, 2004 … Overseas outsourcing: Blame society and standardized tests?-March 25, 2004 … Arlen Specter vs. Pat Toomey on Education Issues-March 23, 2004 … Exemption for English Language Learners: Not good-February 21, 2004 … "No Child Left Behind" backlash in Utah?-February 05, 2004 … Criticism of Vouchers, Defense of Monopoly-January 31, 2004 … Abolish the U.S. Department of Education: For the Children!-January 22, 2004 … A few words on No Child Left Behind-January 10, 2004 … Houston Miracle debunked?-January 10, 2004 …


Progressive Education

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Connected Mathematics Program: A Critique-June 22, 2004 … False Dichotomies of Education Reform: Reading and Math-June 10, 2004 … Embracing creativity the wrong way-May 03, 2004 … Is Holistic teaching wonderful?-March 17, 2004 … Consequence of Child-Centered approach: Difference of Opinion-March 13, 2004 … Is Progressive Education coming to Iraq?-March 13, 2004 … Myth: Phonics is optional, because there's no one "right way" to teach reading-March 07, 2004 … Teaching Homosexuality in the Public Schools-February 26, 2004 … Are Progressive Educators All Bad?-February 24, 2004 … The Ultimate Child-Centered School-February 12, 2004 … Clipping the wings of our youngsters-February 08, 2004 … "Discovery Learning" is wonderful-February 03, 2004 … New French Education Reform Blog!-January 31, 2004 … Instruction in Another Language: A Parent's Right?-January 30, 2004 … Myth of Drill and Kill-January 28, 2004 … ReformK12 meets World-January 24, 2004 … What's wrong with Constructivism?-January 24, 2004 … When school adults refuse to set standards-January 21, 2004 … Spelling woes in the UK-January 19, 2004 … Educational Jargon: a Vaccine against Respect-January 18, 2004 … A Personal History of Certification, Teaching and Rebirth-January 13, 2004 … A tale of two extremes-December 17, 2003 … Comparison of Traditional and Progressive approaches-December 16, 2003 …


Racial Issues

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Reading & English

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School Choice

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Free Market Triptych (part one): Parental Choice-March 31, 2004 … Myth of "creaming" and school choice-March 16, 2004 … Black Alliance for Educational Options-February 27, 2004 … The point to vouchers: Helping parents pay for private school-February 26, 2004 … Joe Nathan on Charter Schools-February 19, 2004 … A Discussion of Vouchers-February 19, 2004 … Argument against Choice: Mass Confusion!-February 18, 2004 … The whole point of charter schools: Choice-February 14, 2004 … Parents who move to areas with good public schools are hypocrites?-February 04, 2004 … Criticism of Vouchers, Defense of Monopoly-January 31, 2004 … "The Bottom Line" in public and private schools-January 18, 2004 … Choice for Me but not for Thee-January 07, 2004 … Thwarting Charter School Efforts-January 06, 2004 …


Success Stories

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Charter Elementary Success in Watts: Recipe for Acheivement-December 30, 2005 … Success at Maple Elementary: A tree grows in Seattle-December 12, 2005 … Catholic School Success: The Oblate Sisters of Baltimore-July 11, 2004 … Help needed for schools in a free Iraq-June 28, 2004 … Congratulations class of 2004-June 24, 2004 … "The results have been impressive. They have also been ignored."-June 08, 2004 … Reflections on Brown: Black school, White school-May 20, 2004 … Not letting bad students demoralize-May 06, 2004 … A teacher's thanks-April 25, 2004 … Iraqi Schools and the U.S. Military-February 16, 2004 … 18 Students Ace Math SAT in one school-January 29, 2004 … The Battle for History Standards in Minnesota-January 26, 2004 … Former student of Jaime Escalante turns out okay-January 21, 2004 … Overrepresentation of foreign-bred students in U.S. specialties-January 21, 2004 … Slice of life: Iraqi public school students-January 17, 2004 … Thwarting Charter School Efforts-January 06, 2004 … Good News from 2003-January 04, 2004 … Homeschooled Novelist-January 03, 2004 …


Teachers & Admin.

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A few words on accountability.-January 14, 2006 … To Administrators: How to Deal with Subs-December 21, 2005 … Free Market Triptych (part two): Freedom to Teach-May 15, 2004 … Not letting bad students demoralize-May 06, 2004 … Placing the blame for school failure-April 15, 2004 … "Stop teaching my kid?" Stop whining!-March 10, 2004 … Teachers and Principal "On Strike" for more respect from kids? Pathetic!-March 02, 2004 … Resentful Rubber Room Resident Remains-February 05, 2004 … Cheating Pep Rally in Phoenix-January 27, 2004 … Jack Welch on leadership: A primer for principals-January 23, 2004 … Zero Tolerance explained-January 09, 2004 … Humor: Responsibilities of Teachers-December 28, 2003 … Guiding Principles for Reform in Philly, Part 2-December 19, 2003 … Guiding Principles for Reform in Philly-December 19, 2003 …


Testing & Grading

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Making AYP: The Game (Pennsylvania Edition)-January 16, 2006 … ATESLA: Test every kid, every year.-December 23, 2005 … Invasion of the Student Body Snatchers: A Statistical Lie Exposed-December 22, 2005 … Yes, Dedicated Teachers Fail Kids-December 15, 2005 … No Child Left Behind and Growth Models-December 11, 2005 … A teacher's thanks-April 25, 2004 … Some thoughts on standardized testing-April 19, 2004 … A few thoughts on grading-March 21, 2004 … Two kinds of tests, two roles for tests-March 20, 2004 … 3rd grade exit exam: Another top-down high-stakes test?-March 16, 2004 … Sampling, and the point of standardized tests-March 08, 2004 … Scoring the FCAT: Calling all rocket scientists and psychometricians!-March 03, 2004 … Teaching to the Test-February 29, 2004 … Bias and the SAT-February 11, 2004 … Test Prep as a High School course?-February 07, 2004 … Cheating Pep Rally in Phoenix-January 27, 2004 … Alfie Kohn is not insane-January 10, 2004 … Houston Miracle debunked?-January 10, 2004 …


Unions

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Vouchers

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